In ancient Carthage, (now in Tunisia) the civilization used to follow brutal rituals of sacrificing children. This claim was previously denied in various Greek and Roman accounts but a 2014 study ...

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.

DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat ...

European Neolithic hunter-gatherer groups traveled the sea to make their home in Africa, according to a new archaeological ...

Ancient Ghana encompassed what is now modern ... The route taken by traders of the Maghreb to Ghana would have started in North Africa in Tahert, sweeping down through Sijilimasa in Southern ...

As Europe tightens its borders, North Africa is ready to captivate South Africans with its historical riches, culinary ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have ... first clear genetic evidence of contact between early European and North African populations, indicating that Stone Age European hunter-gatherers ...

Using ancient genomes, researchers have mapped ... “There’s not been much of a North African story,” says David Reich, a population geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston ...